Using Oral Assessment in the Literature Classroom

1. Using Oral Assessment in the Literature Classroom Wimba, ROFR 30710, and the Snite Museum of Art April 29, 2010 By Julia Douthwaite University of Notre Dame http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/douthwaite-julia/

2. Art and Literature assignment in ROFR 30710(“From Perceval to Puss-in-Boots” [aka Survey I of French Literature, Middle Ages – 17th century]) • Go to the Snite Museum of Art on March 18, and enjoy the guided tour of select works of the Medieval --Renaissance periods presented by Curator Diana Mathias. • Choose one work of art for particular attention. • Prepare notes that will allow you to present a 5-minute oral reflection that 1) describes the work of art (using appropriate vocabulary) and 2) explains its relevance for a text that we have studied in class, or that we are going to study later this semester.   • [Learning goals: 1) learn some basics of early modern art history; 2) practice speaking French; 3) acquire and use new vocabulary; 4) enhance analytic skills for use with visual artifacts; 5) incite comparative analysis of textual and visual sources]

3. Voculabulary for Art Analysis Prepared by Diana Matthias, Curator for Education, Snite Museum of Art UNE JEUNE FILLE c.1508 Bartolomeo Veneto. Italien. actif 1502-1531 Notre Dame, IN: Snite Museum of Art poser pour un portrait le portrait de trois quarts, le profil, un regard direct/franc/droit le portrait en pied, en buste la manière de montrer la richesse d’une famille la robe avec les noeuds de rubans, la mousseline blanche, le fil d’or, la broderie, le velours, les rayures, les manches, tirer le tissu de la chemise à travers les fentes, la soie damassée, le châle. la ceinture, les cheveux bouclés, les lois somptuaires, les niveaux sociaux bien marqués, le paysage, la dot, la distance, les châteaux

4. MONA LISA (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde). ca. 1503-1506. Leonardo da Vinci. Italian. Active 1472-1516 Paris: Louvre Museum

5. Model assignment by Kathleen Ginty • Student in ROFR 30710 (2nd year student) • On Veneto's portrait of a young girl, “UneJeunefille” • described the painting with emphasis on socio-historical details inherent in the fabric of her clothing, her pose, and the background imagery behind her, • Noted similarities between “Unejeunefille” and “Mona Lisa / La Joconde” by Leonardo da Vinci • Stressed how the painting emphasizes the wealth of this young girl-to-be-married in juxtaposition to the chateaux behind her, and the her fertility as symbolized by the green, luxuriant, bucolic landscape • 4) compared the painting with a poem that we read: Baudelaire, “La Géante” (1859), where the woman becomes a pastoral landscape herself, a sensual, calming presence alongside which the poet can repose.

6. … J'eusse aimé vivre auprès d'une jeune géante,Comme aux pieds d'une reine un chat voluptueux. J'eusse aimé voir son corps fleurir avec son âme… Et parfois en été, quand les soleils malsains, Lasse, la font s'étendre à travers la campagne,Dormir nonchalamment à l'ombre de ses seins,Comme un hameau paisible au pied d'une montagne. --Charles Baudelaire, “La Géante” Les Fleurs du Mal, 1859 …I should have liked to live near a young giantess, Like a voluptuous cat at the feet of a queen. I should have liked to see her soul and body thrive… And sometimes in summer, when the unhealthy sun Makes her stretch out, weary, across the countryside, To sleep nonchalantly in the shade of her breasts, Like a peaceful hamlet below a mountainside. — William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)